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    Left and right can be whichever side you want. Each conn in Openswan
    will work out if it is left or right from the conn definition. In
    their own conf files both sides of the conn can be defined as left
    or, in the simple case, you can use an identical conf file on both
    sides of the tunnel. Left and right is entirely arbitrary.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/08/2015 17:53, Patrick Naubert
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                class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span
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                  left/right conns allowed?</b><br class="">
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                class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span
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              <div class="">We are trying to automate the creation of
                conn parameters to connect a few hundred servers in a
                full mesh network. Doing this using puppet, its very
                easy to create the conns so that left = right and visa
                versa on the other end but if left must = left then the
                logic is going to be a lot more complex.</div>
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              <div class="">The ipsec.conf man page says:<br class="">
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0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> Which
                participant is considered left or right is arbitrary;
                IPsec figures out which one it is being run on based on
                internal information. This permits using identical
                connection specifications on both ends. </blockquote>
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              <div class="">Does that imply that we can use left=right
                and right=left on the other side? Can anyone confirm?
                Any assistance would be much appreciated :)</div>
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              <div class="">Jeremy</div>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Users@lists.openswan.org">Users@lists.openswan.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.openswan.org/mailman/listinfo/users">https://lists.openswan.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a>
Micropayments: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://flattr.com/thing/38387/IPsec-for-Linux-made-easy">https://flattr.com/thing/38387/IPsec-for-Linux-made-easy</a>
Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks with Openswan:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1904811256/104-3099591-2946327?n=283155">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1904811256/104-3099591-2946327?n=283155</a>
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